Medical identities and print culture, 1830s–1910s 1st ed.

Author

• Moulds, Alison

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030743451

Series

Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine

Subject(s)

• BRITISH LITERATURE
• MEDICINE--HISTORY

Notes

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Abstract

This book examines how the medical profession engaged with print and literary culture to shape its identities between the 1830s and 1910s in Britain and its empire. Moving away from a focus on medical education and professional appointments, the book reorients attention to how medical self-fashioning interacted with other axes of identity, including age, gender, race, and the spaces of practice. Drawing on medical journals and fiction, as well as professional advice guides and popular periodicals, this volume considers how images of medical practice and professionalism were formed in the cultural and medical imagination. Alison Moulds uncovers how medical professionals were involved in textual production and consumption as editors, contributors, correspondents, readers, authors, and reviewers. Ultimately, this book opens up new perspectives on the relationship between literature and medicine, revealing how the profession engaged with a range of textual practices to build communities, air grievances, and augment its cultural authority and status in public life.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 288 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction --
2. The Young Practitioner --
3. The Metropolitan Practitioner --
4. The Country Practitioner --
5. The Medical Woman --
6. The Colonial Practitioner in British India --
7. Conclusion

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00949/21	809.034 Mou M	Online !	Available